History - America Culture and Society

Roaring Twenties

Working hours fell + Wages rose = More time and money

Known as the Jazz Age - Black Music

• Strong in the northern cities - it came with the black migration
• More dancehalls, radios and gramma phone records
• Older people hated it - linked to sex
• Famous Jazz artists - Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong

1920s - Dancehalls opened up

Slow dances --> Fast more rhythmic - More sexual

Popular - Charleston and Black Bottom

Women filled male jobs in WW1 - Forced out after war

• 1920s - 25% more women working
• 1920 - Give the right to work - Limited access to government - Eleanor Roosevelt

Corsets --> Hemlines went up and hair cut short

Clothes by mail order Advertising targeted women

Women more liberated

• Some smoked
• Wore makeup
• Drove cars
• Going out with men

Flappers = Modern Day **** - Young, Middle aged women all of above

Women immigrants did not neccessairly live like this, nor did people in the countrside.

Cinema

• Hollwood = Film Capital
• 3 a week
• Comedies most popular - Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton
• Silent untill 1929
• Starts were household names
• Older people again did not like :( kissing censored
• Fashion Icons
• Escapism
• Novelty
• More Money/Time

Sport

• More Time/Money
• Very Profitable
• Famous people - Jack Dempsey and Gene Tymney (Boxing) and Babe Ruth (Baseball)